for what you're doing and thank you for pausing to talk with us today. we appreciate it. and one final note. today is international women's day. when we stop to celebrate the social, political, and economic achievements of many women, that includes all of our guests today, like ukrainian parliament member, keira ruddick, bravely staying in her country to fight for her country. and it includes the leaders from countries like denmark, estonia, and lithuania. they're showing girls around the world, if you can see it, you can be it. so on this international women's day, we especially honor the women on the battle fields, in the halls of government, and the ones fighting to protect their cities and their families. that wraps up this hour. i'm chris jansing. jose diaz-balart picks up breaking news coverage now. and good morning. it's 10:00 am eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. and we begin with breaking news. nbc news that has learned the u.s. is expected to announce it is banning imports of russian

oil, as soon as today. president biden expected to speak on this, this hour. we will bring that to you live. in ukraine this morning, evacuations are underway from the besieged city of sumi, along a safe corridor, following a night of heavy shelling by russian forces. and as the assault on ukraine intensifies, the united nations now says 2 million people have fled. meantime, ukraine's president zelenskyy is once again calling for a no-fly zone. we'll look at what exactly that would mean. plus, we'll speak with senator bob menendez, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and congressman gerry connolly, who was recently at ukraine's border with poland about the growing crisis and what the u.s. can do about it. and right now, the house intelligence committee is about to begin a worldwide threats hearing, where ukraine is set to be front and center. we'll bring you updates throughout the morning.

and happening right now in ukraine, as you can see, civilians evacuated on buses through a humanitarian corridor, to flee the ongoing violence in the northeastern city of sumi, where a cease-fire is now mostly holding, after another night of relentless shelling by russian forces. and while some people were able to flee through another corridor, near the southern city of mariupol, seen here, ukraine officials say there are reports of shelling by russian forces on an evacuation route there. ukrainian president zelenskyy said a child has died of dehydration, after the city was cut off from critical utilities and supplies. nbc news's richard engel has the latest. >> we are now on the outskirts of kyiv. and at the end of this road is the suburb of irpine. and all day, people have been evacuating from irpine, because russian troops are in irpine, russian tanks and they are fighting with ukrainian

soldiers, ukrainian volunteers. and despite several days of fighting in this relatively small suburb, which the russians are hoping to take over and use so that they can advance deeper into kyiv, the resistance is holding on. the russians have not been able to take over this small pocket on the edge of kyiv. and that is giving some ukrainians a great deal of confidence. many u.s. officials predicted that the ukrainian military would have already collapsed at this point. instead, the russians aren't even able to take over a suburb out on the edge of the city and use it to push into the capital itself. but thousands of people are still streaming out, because they're trying to avoid the fighting. and there have been two attempts in other cities today to create so-called humanitarian corridors to allow citizens to leave. but in one of them, mariupol in the south, ukrainian officials allege that the humanitarian corridor quickly broke down and they claim that russian troops

fired on civilians as they were trying to leave the city. >> richard engel, thank you. just this morning, president zelenskyy posted a new video, renewing his defiant message in the face of russian invasion. telling ukrainians, quote, we will win. but in the midst of this crisis, the world health organization is now warning that attacks on ukrainian hospitals have rapidly increased and vital supplies like oxygen and ppe are running low. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, erin mclaughlin, live in lviv. erin, tell us what you're seeing there. >> hey, jose. well, i've been speaking to some civilians who have been trapped in the city of sumy, which is located about 18 miles from the russian border. it has been besieged for days and i've been speaking to civilian who is described a night of terror last night, according to ukrainian officials, russian forces dropped thousand-pound bombs on residential areas, killing at least 21 civilians, including

two children. i was speaking to a woman who has been trapped inside the city, irina, we featured her on your program yesterday, jose, and she was telling me how horrified she was listening to these bombs drop. she says that she knows friends of hers who have lost their homes in that attack, and then to turn around this morning to news of this cease-fire, that a humanitarian adore is being opened up, that civilians are being allowed to evacuate, she was skeptical. she was concerned that it was a russian provocation, that she be attacked on the way out. so she, her mother, and her grandmother are staying put while ukrainian officials are saying that the cease-fire is holding. they've managed to evacuate civilians by the bus load, including about a thousand foreign students. and it's one cease fire that's managed to hold, where cease fires have failed in the city of mariupol, where some 200,000 people have been trapped without food, water, power, or any communication to the outside

world. also, the city of volnovaha, attempts there failing there as well, while the russians are offering these humanitarian corridors in a number of locations, sumy is so far one of the few places that the ukrainians have agreed to evacuate, because the other cities that are being offered by the russians, those corridors lead to russia and to belarus, which is out of the question for ukrainian officials, jose. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. joining us now from outside of ukraine's capital, lisa yasglow, a member of the ukrainian parliament. thank you for being with us. what does your day to day look like right now? >> it looks like a horror that doesn't stop. and learning every day about the number of killed people, ruined homes, ruined infrastructure is very painful. and unfortunately, around two days ago, we already entered a

period when we know -- we started hearing stories, and someone we knew is already killed. i have around five people that i knew that are killed, unfortunately. and dozens of people who don't have their homes anymore. my apartment that i own is 20 kilometers away from kyiv is destroyed, because it's from -- the borders are a city town, and unfortunately, attacks are very massive. many people are in a terrible condition. just a few minutes ago, i had a conversation with members of my team, who was crying on a train station and saying that she just cannot leave. she doesn't know where to go. and also, the queues are so long, and she doesn't know what to do. but this is not just an individual case.

>> yeah, i mean, it seems like ukrainians are fighting back, but this is a moment where there are very few choices left for people in ukraine. >> there is no choice, only fight. but of course, we want to save our children and women and those who are in need and they, of course, need to have access to water, you know, to food, but even that is not happening to hundreds, thousands of people right now. and i'm very happy that today, a few towns, they got the humanitarian corridors and there is an evacuation happening right now, but we know that the russians are also targeting civilians during the humanitarian corridors, as well. so the situation gets worse and of course, we are exhausted, mentally, but the fighting spirit is very high. and our president shows a great example of that.

>> ukraine's foreign minister wrote an op-ed yesterday, titled, the world can do more to help us fight russia. what can the world do more? >> we are asking for no-fly zone. and we know the arguments that some countries don't want to enter the war, because that would mean that they would need to fight russia. but if we don't do it together, russian aggression will come to your towns and will kill people in your countries. and every day, we lose people, and we don't have time. and we are asking to act right now, because we don't have time. it's such an urgency. we cannot see bombs and explosions every day, killing our people. it's so heartbreaking. and what the price should be, it's already too high. and if no-fly zone is -- if it's impossible, then let's think about alternative ways, about some other options that prevent

our air defense, could protect. we need that, a lot. >> you have been very vocal in saying that putin will not stop with ukraine. what do you mean by that? >> we know, unfortunately, that putin thinks that he can take other countries and influence -- look at belarus, look at what happened in georgia right now. unfortunately, in georgia, we see that the georgian government signed a trade agreement with russia in the time when we actually were expecting that they would impose sanctions against russia. all the world is imposing sanctions, but while some governments are doing the opposite, and just this morning. we understand that russia wants to take more occupied territories, like in georgia, also in balkan countries, to get more influence, and to bring

soviet union back. >> what do you want us to know about ukrainians? >> we will fight until victory. but i cannot agree with the fact that we are losing hundreds of thousands of people every day. we need to stop that altogether. and i cannot see people crying and in tears, leaving families, and you know, so many people are forced to leave outside of ukraine, but their husbands, their brothers, their fathers stay to fight. i want to say that families happy, together, united. we deserve that, a lot. we deserve, because we already paid so much, and i hope that one day, relatively soon will come when we have that peace, but we need your help to reach that peace. >> lisa yasko, thank you very

much for being with us this morning. i very much appreciate your time. >> thank you. we're keeping a close eye on capitol hill, but right now the house intelligence committee is holding a hearing on worldwide threats. leigh ann caldwell is following the hearing closely from the capitol. what are we expecting? >> reporter: this is a hearing that happens every year when the top intelligence officials come before congress and talk about what risk the country faces, what the most risks are. and this report that they put out every year talks about china, talks about russia, climate change, the global pandemic. but what's interesting is this report did not happen, it was finished before russia invaded ukraine. and so, you can be sure that the questions that lawmakers are going to ask these top intelligence officials is going to be about the russian invasion. the top democrat on the committee, adam schiff, he just said that he applauded the

intelligence community by the unprecedented move of unveiling intelligence that they had on what russia was going to do, leading up and into the invasion of ukraine. and then, he just got done speaking with the top republican of that committee, mike turner. and he said his questions are going to focus on the nuclear threat that russia poses. and so while this hearing will talk about the threats around the world, as the intelligence community has been watching for the past year and many years, it will definitely also focus on the current biggest risk, which is that russia and its invasion of ukraine and its impact on the rest of the world, jose. >> leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill. thank you. still ahead, why russian president putin is cracking down on the media and isolating the country. plus, as we await president biden's expected remarks on russian oil, we'll talk to senator bob menendez, chairman of the foreign relations committee. and in celebration of international women's day, a

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17 past the hour. we're keeping a close eye on the white house this morning. nbc news has learned that president biden is expected to announce later this hour that the u.s. is banning imports of russian oil. this could raise gas prices here in the u.s. even more.

and "the washington post" reports that hours ago, the european union presented a plan to cut russian gas imports by two-thirds this year. the announcement comes as aaa says the national average for regular is now $4.17 a gallon. that's the highest ever recorded. up ten cents from yesterday, 55 cents from last week, and $1.40 from this time last year. nbc news correspondent sam brock joins us from miami this morning. sam, a ban on russian oil will push gas prices even higher. at the same time, prices on everything else is continuing to rise. >> there is no doubt right now, especially given these sanctions, jose, that gas prices and the price of a barrel of oil is going nothing but up. and let's not forget about the fact, certainly, that what's happening at the pump here is very real, as we approach $5 a gallon here in florida. the increase we've seen nationally in the last week, of more than 50 cents in seven days is the greatest in the history

of the american country. it's more than what we saw in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. that said, there is such a broader impact of what's going on right now, not just what's happening at the pumps. because oil, and specifically petroleum products, jose, are at the very underpinning of so many aspects of our livelihoods, down to how much it costs to transport goods, flying to see loved ones, even what's made in plastics or certain products. all of this comes back to petroleum. so i was out yesterday talking to some local business owners, specifically in the restaurant and food business, to find out what kind of changes they've seen. coke prices, coca-cola, i'm talking about, have gone up 30 or 40%, according to one food truck owner. in addition to things like fish and meat, tacos, all of this, on the up, chopsticks. i spoke with one entrepreneur who explained to me he's trying to digest this and not pass on the cost to consumers, but it's going to be tough. >> it's going to have some point of -- some kind of effect, because like, everyone's worried about their bills.

for example, paying rent is really, really high right now. so it's either they go out and get something or they might miss that to pay rent on a monthly basis. >> reporter: jose, these sanctions that the biden administration is expected to announce are going to be lasting more than likely months, not weeks. but the big question becoming how is the united states going to make up for the lost oil, which is still in the single digits when you consider both crude oil and petroleum products, but it's a lot. we could see a bump up in domestic production, but there was a secret delegation, jose, sent to venezuela over the weekend to meet with nicolas maduro. consider the irony of this. the maduro administration is under sanctions because of deprivation of human rights, and that's the position that the united states finds itself in, dealing with bad actors, like venezuela, saudi arabia, or iran, to try to figure out how they're going to overcome this deficit. jose? >> it is truly unbelievable. sam brock in miami, thank you so much. and with us now to continue

our conversation, new jersey senator bob menendez, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, it is always a pleasure to see you. i want to begin by getting your reaction to the news that president biden is expected to announce a ban on russian oil imports later this hour. >> well, look, we have to find every way possible to continue to tie the economic noose around putin's neck. and so this is a welcome decision that will be announced. it is one that has broad bipartisan sport. but, you know, at the same time, and i applaud that the administration is doing it. i hope that they have put into place the ability to replace that crude, petroleum, and other products. so that we can limit the consequences economically here in the united states. >> well, one of the ways, apparently, and sam brock was just talking about this, comes one day after the white house acknowledged a team of biden administration officials

traveled to venezuela over the weekend, to talk to the maduro regime, about purchasing maybe some venezuelan oil, as well as apparently speaking about the american citizens that had been detained there. you had a particularly pointed response to this, saying in a statement that reads in part, nicolas maduro is a cancer to our hemisphere and we should not breathe new life into his reign of torture and murder. senator, are we seeing the importance of american leadership of getting the world together to oppose dangerous regimes. and yet, what's going on with venezuela? >> well, what i said is what i believe. look, i understand the economic consequences that the president is trying to avoid for the american people. i share that concern. but there's places like mexico, the united arab emirates, canada, as well as domestic production that has already been licensed. that should be able to offshoot

the consequencs the loss of russian oil. you don't have to go to a dictator that ultimately has created enormous consequences for his people, that kills people, that imprisons them, and to which president biden extended the decree that declare ed maduro and his regime a national security threat. >> and also the environmental consequences of having venezuela produce more oil would be just disastrous to latin america. senator, you and your colleagues seds a closed-door briefing last night on the situation in ukraine. i know you can't reveal classified information, but what did you take away from the briefing? >> well, what i take away is that we're in for a long, protracted reality. you know, putin clearly has miscaculated dramatically in terms of the resolve and courage

and ferocity of the ukrainian army and itself people. not welcomed as liberators as he said they would be. he has undermined and miscalculated the resolve of nato and the west in terms of the overwhelming sanctions that have been leveed in a multilateral way, which the time and ferocity of them is more than i've seen in 30 years of foreign policy work. he said he didn't want troops along his border from nato and the united states. he has more troops now than ever before as a result of his actions. his central bank is sanctioned. the ruble is virtually worthless. they'll probably go into default. so at the end of the day, these are the consequences that he has wrought. but at the same time, the ukrainian people have are facing enormous consequences in the indiscriminate shelling of civilian infrastructure,

residential homes, and other infrastructure. even in people trying to get through supposed humanitarian corridors, where they have come under mortar attack by the russians. this is a moment in which the west has to stand firmly against putin, or else he will continue to march on. and it is a moment for the type of resolve that we will need, not only for the moment, but moving forward. >> senator, late last week, there were two rulings in regard to a public health policy, known as title xlii, which allows the government to stop people from entering the country to stop the spread of a communicable disease. on friday, a federal appeals court in washington ruled the government can continue to expel migrant families, but can't spend them back to countries where they will face torture or persecution. in a federal case, a federal judge ruled that the biden administration cannot exempt unaccompanied children from title xlii, based strictly on their status as unaccompanied

children. how do you see this, senator? >> well, look, title xlii is being used in a way that i think is indiscriminate. and that violates the basic essence of our law. we are past the time of using it for the purposes of deportation of those seeking asylum in the united states. what we should be doing is living under the law and to our values, which is adjudicating the cases of those who say that they are seeking asylum. and determining whether or not they have a legitimate claim for asylum. but this process that the biden administration has continued from the trump administration, in my mind, is inexcusable. >> senator bob menendez, thank you so much for being with us this morning. appreciate your time. still ahead, we'll talk to an expert about putin's next move in the war with ukraine. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. y

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images showing the harrowing impact the war is having on the ukrainian people. this video is from a town not too far from the capital, kyiv. ukrainian soldiers helping people fleeing russian forces to cross a makeshift bridge next to the remains of a bombed out bridge, as the river rages just below their feet. take a look at this. joining us now, nina khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at the new school. professor, it's always a pleasure to see you. what are the images like this telling you about the war russia is waging against ukraine? >> thank you, jose. this is just heartbreaking, because i grew up in the soviet union. this is the time that we saw images like that of nazi germany abusing and and attacking ukrainian people, and russian people and people in the soviet union. so now the fact that russia, my country is doing it to the country it says is its brother, essentially the same nation, the

same people, it's indescribable. it's just absolutely indescribable. but also, on russian tv, of course, and russian sources that are now almost 100% have blanketed the country, you can't see that part of the war. you actually only see the part of the donetsk, luhansk operation where the brave russian forces are saving the country from some nazi occupation of the country. >> and putin has been doing a lot to close down, right, any kind of source of information that is not controlled by the government inside russia. what are the russian people seeing and is he able to tailor a story, a fabricated story, as you were just talking about, you know, liberators of ukraine, is that possible in today's age?

in russia? >> well, now it's a blackout, essentially, of media. it's a total media blackout. it's the stone age that has extend on russia altogether. to some degree, i think it is possible. in the beginning, in fact, there was much more opposition, because there's independent tv station. there was tiktok, there were all this other social media that in the last two weeks, closed almost as if the iron curtain of the media just fell down on russia tremendously and in fact, the one i mentioned, the iconic radio station since 1990 that was closed today announced that its air waves were taken by the sputnik radio, which is a horrible version of russia today. it's the russian propaganda,

nonstop. it adds insult to injury. and i was talking to a friend who was another iconic anchor, and he said that now, he turn on tv, russian tv, and he said that the brainwashing is just beyond belief. what is shown, what you are showing on the ukraine side, the same thing is shown on the donetsk, luhansk, and those poor people in the -- they want to be russians or affiliated with the russia is being abused and threatened and killed by the ukrainian forces, but those nazi forces that is being presented. he said, if i don't have any access to the world, i would ultimately maybe believe that. so that's not out of the realm of possibility that that propaganda may work for at least some time. >> nina khrushcheva, thank you for being with us this morning. always a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. still ahead, congressman

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39 past the hour. take a look at the scene last hour at a train station in poland. refugees fleeing the conflict in ukraine, continue to arrive. the united nations says more than 2 million people have now

fled ukraine. so far, the majority escaping to poland. joining us now is julio vaqueiro, live in poland near the ukrainian border. you have been doing some extraordinary coverage for our spanish-speaking viewers about what is happening there. describe what you're seeing >> reporter: yes, jose, we're right at medica, a town right next to ukraine. ukraine is right behind these houses at my back. and what we've seen is an avalanche of people coming in. thousands and thousands of refugees coming in through these checkpoints in the border. walking down this path. and just finding an incredible welcoming, because we have to say that the solidarity shown by the polish people has been outstanding. people here find medical services, they can find some food, and also some transportation. the line you see now is a line

that people are making to ride a bus that will take them to a refugee center. so you just said, more than 2 million refugees according to the united nations, we were speaking to an officer, who was working here right now, and he was expecting the numbers to double, probably. so far, more than 1 million have arrived into poland. and that, of course, it's a crisis, and it's a big challenge for the polish government. >> and julio, so many children. just in these moments that we're having speaking to you, behind you we see children passing by you. >> yes, jose. children and women. that's what we've been seeing. and very, very young children. and also, the temperatures right now, it's 30 degrees fahrenheit. it's extremely cold. and children are walking with their mothers and they don't know where they're going to sleep tonight.

and also, according to the united nations, more than half of these refugees that have fled ukraine are children, are underage. so that's also a big part of the crisis. the good thing is that the european union is accepting these refugees for three years, so that's -- that can bring some hope to them and for the future. >> yeah, julio vaqueiro, extraordinary work. more tonight on telemundo. thank you for being with us. joining us now is democratic congressman gerry connolly, who was part of a democratic delegation that just returned from the polish/ukrainian border. >> great to be with you. i can confirm what your reporter just said. i was at the same place and i was struck with how many children there were, and how cold it was. and when they cross that border, and it's almost always on foot,

they are given a hot meal, but they're outside. many of them had no gloves, no hat. they did have coats, but i was really concerned about their body temperature and how long they could withstand that. the polish government and polish volunteers are doing a great job of trying to make sure their needs are met and transporting them as quickly as possible to a heated shelter, where they spend the night and hopefully are placed. either with ukrainian friends and family in poland already or with polish families. the poles are stepping up and volunteering to open their homes to these refugees in unprecedented numbers. >> based on what you learned on this trip, do you think that congress should have a larger role in addressing this crisis, maybe? >> you know, what i found so heartening on this trip was there was no partisan divide, at least in our delegation. we had four republicans and five democrats and we all were speaking with one voice, we all

had the same reaction. we've got to step up our humanitarian assistance, and we are. but we also have to provide the ukrainians with the equipment they need to take this fight to the russians and to raise the cost to russia, of this reckless, malignant act. >> congressman, we hear over and over again, folks inside ukraine, from the president on down, saying that the world should step up and give some kind of a no-fly-zones to parts of ukraine. you know, how do you see something like that? >> we had to be very careful about not getting into direction conflict with russia. nobody's interests are served if that happens. in fact, it expands the conflict considerably. and it will fracture the solidarity we've worked so hard to achieve. but there are ways of making sure that it's much more dangerous for russian aircraft and combat aircraft to operate

in ukraine. and so, you know, drones, we're trying to get lots of drones into the theater of combat, into ukrainian hands. we're looking at old soviet sand missiles to take down high-flying aircraft. we've already got lots of stringers and we'll provide more to take low-flying aircraft and helicopters down. and we already have succeeded in doing several dozen of those. so raising the cost, and making it much more difficult and dangerous for russian aircraft to operate right now with impunity in the skies in ukraine is the name of the game. i think, you know, a no-fly zone sounds good, but it is fraught with danger of expanding the conflict, a conflict we want to -- you know, we want to end, not expand. >> congressman gerry connolly, thank you so much for being with us this morning. i appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. thank you. moments ago, supreme court judge nominee ketanji brown

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this morning ukraine's president zelenskyy once again asked for an no-fly zone over his country. joining us it is clint watts, distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. clint, it's great seeing you. so exactly what would a no-fly zone over ukraine look like, and how could it be carried out? >> so, jose, no-fly zone over ukraine would mean this entire

area all the way up to the board errs and all the way around the country, nato aircraft would have to enforce that. any military aircraft that could be used to essentially attack civilians would be interdicted. that means any russian aircraft that entered but what would also likely happen and that's why you're hearing so much father unless they can electronically jam, for example, all the air defense systems along here and along this border area, well, they might have to interdict them because they would essentially have anti-aircraft pointing our aiming or lasing targets at them or possibly shooting at them so it would almost always provoke a war in a situation like that. so you might remember in iraq we did have that, but that's a place where we could control the airspace. >> yeah. clint, i mean, are there variables, differences maybe that could be carried out? so you don't take out the radar stations, you don't go into russian territory at all but you announced, for example, that the international community will throw -- will knock down any

airplane that crosses into sovereign ukranian territory that is not supposed to be there? >> they could do that, but i doubt. based on vladimir putin's rhetoric, at least to this point, he would see that anything other than an act of war. he specifically said if nato were to cross any of these red lines, specifically cross over into the red line by air or sea they would immediately have a dog fight or combat in the air. >> meanwhile, ukranians are being killed day in and day out. clint, walk us through what's happening on the ground. >> sure, i want to start where if you've seen the coverage of richard engel, he's been talking about irpin, an area just northwest of kyiv where you so a lot of civilians trying to evacuate right now. they have been out there on their own. the ukranian military has been great but armor formations are starting in and even west of the city there's some discussion of that. that brings us back to the bigger point of what's going on

more broadly. you're starting to see week one was the hail mary of putin to take out the regime in one week. it failed. now you're seeing traditional conventional warfare and armored conadvice, multiple axes of advance and if they can link around kyiv, that's what you'll see in mariupol and that's a city under siege, infrastructure destroyed. indirect fires uncertain tough situation, but in each of these i think i would want to note one thing. while they advance they cannot secure, and so the russians, even when they make gains in the rear area they are oftentimes losing ground back to the ukranian military. >> clint, real quick. could the world do like an iron dome against airplanes that are sen operating foreign country's airspace? >> not at this point. it could have been stalled, more of the anti-aircraft systems, but i've got to say the number of missiles that have already been in the country are being delivered into the country and

what you're seeing in terms of the air superiority russia cannot do it, particularly around kharkiv, this area right here. there's a lot of russian aircraft going down. they are not able to suppress the enemy or what they see as the enemy air defense, but that is a pretty impressive what the ukranian military has been table do knocking down russian aircraft. >> clint watt, thanks so much for being with us. president biden serbs pected to announce at any moment the u.s. will ban imports of russian oil. we'll bring that to you live. and why a number of ukranians and russians are fleeing to mexico. you're washing "jose diaz-balart reports." you're washing "jose diaz-balart ports. >> woman: what's my safelite story? i see inspiration right through my glass. so when my windshield cracked, i chose safelite. they replaced the glass and recalibrated my safety system. that's service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ♪ got my hair ♪ ♪ got my head ♪ ♪ got my brains ♪ ♪ got my ears ♪ ♪ got my heart ♪ ♪ got my soul ♪

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supersonic wifi only from us... xfinity. 57 past the hour. a growing number of uke yaps and russians have been fleeing to mexico and making their way to the southern border in the u.s. to seek asylum, according to reuters. government data reviewed by reuters showed that since october almost all of the russian and ukranian migrants at the border have been allowed to

stay in the u.s. for their asylum claims, but vast majority of migrants from places like mexico, central america, cuba, haiti who come to the border, oh, they are removed. joining us now to discuss allen orr, president of the american immigration lawyers association. thanks for being with us. there is a difference between ukranians and russians arriving to the u.s. before the conflict started and almost all the other migrants? >> yeah. it's basically resources. that's the primary difference is that many russians are going and buying a car and then driving across the port so what we saw with title 42 is 1.2 million immigrants have been returned while the port has allowed 11 million people to cross back and forth on a daily basis and thousands to fly in from the southern border so title 42 really doesn't work. >> and title 42 has been emphasized and, you know, as you know, two key court rules, one limiting deportations under title 42 to places where

migrants would not be persecuted and then the other one saying the administration can't exempt unaccompanied minors from those deportations. what's your reaction to that? >> why it speaks to why title 42 shouldn't exist at all. there's really no finding from the cdc that this really has any impact and once we have the world crisis and looking to accept more refugees from around the world we shouldn't keep out of title 42 the ones that are black and brown at the southern border and those who don't have resources. it aggravates the amount of numbers of people who are coming and being apprehended at the border. we saw the number of people apprehended more than once rose from 7% to 40% in more than a couple of months. looks like there's more people at the boarder when there's the same people trying to cross so basically the biden administration needs to allow people to have the rights afforded to them upped our constitution to apply for asylum which is a lawful way to enter. we call the people from europe

refugees, the people from central america illegal immigrants. that basically tells you the problem. >> you know, not being returned to countries where there are problems, haiti, cuba, i mean, so many, and yet no problem. they are being deported no questions asked. thank you so much for being with us. >> that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thanks for the privilege of your time. be sure to follow the show on instagram. yasmin voussoughian picks up the show right now. >> i'm here in new york city and any moment now the president will speak at the white house. two sources are telling nbc news he's pected to announce the u.s. is going to ban imports of russian oil today so this is coming at a major moment of pressure for americans at the gas pump. the national average for a gallon o